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The Organisation for those who love Cornwall.
"Cuntelleugh an brewyon us gesys na vo kellys travyth"
(Gather up the fragments that are left that nothing be lost.)
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The comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of CornwallRoundburyAlso known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Linkinhorne In the
civil parish of Linkinhorne. Ring Motte and Bailey. A inner work is approximately 115 by 80m with a 1.4m high outer bank and a 0.5m high inner scarp. There is a crescent shaped outer work to the west the ends of which almost abut the inner work on the north and south sides. Difficult to understand why this site is so little referenced. Presumably it has been assumed to be an IA hill fort. It is a hill top site not near settlement but close to a road. This is an area of non nuclated settlement and the site is a mile from the parish churchThis site has been described as a Timber Castle. These are
the earthwork and timber castles of the motte and bailey or ringwork
form which where the vast majority of castles of the early conquest
period, of the Marches in the 11th and 12th centuries and of the
period during the reign of Stephen known as the Anarchy. They were
generally fairly short lived, although some such castles survived for
centuries, with the timber buildings and defences being replaced on
occasions sometimes in timber and sometimes in Masonry (Alderton
Castle in Northamptonshire was shown in a Time Team excavation to have
been built about 1070 and to still have been having high status
visitors in the C15-a fine piece of enamels horse harness being found
in the gatehouse). Some of the smaller low mottes may have been
adapted into moated manor houses, whilst others where abandoned and
replaced by manor houses of a more comfortable and domestic nature.
Timber castles varied greatly in size with some being massive
constructions clearly deserving the term castle, whilst other were
small mounds of minor knights and had a similar size, function and
social status as the later pele towers. These small mottes are called
'castle' but this could be considered a rather loose use of the term. The
confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible. Earthworks remains. The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SX31187252
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